by Madeleine Begun Kane
Hannity Insanity
Few people are better at creating a Krauthammer-lauded “alternate reality” than Fox’s Sean Hannity. Columnist Dick Polman provides an excellent example:
On his Fox show one week ago, Sean Hannity told his credulous fans that President Obama had made a deliberate effort during his Cairo speech “to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice [...]
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The Week+ in Political Limericks
Posted on 16 June 2009 by Madeleine Begun Kane | Comments (0) | Tags: 9/11 Sympathizers, Al Qaeda, Alternate Reality, Automobiles, bankruptcy, Bilingual Education, Blame, Cars, democrats, Dick Polman, economy, Finance, FOX News, General Motors, GM, GOP, Immigrants, Judiciary Satire, Krauthammer, Latina, Law Satire, Leonard Bernstein, lies, Liz Cheney, Maria, Mark Krikorian, Media, Media Lies, Mike Huckabee, money, Names, National Review, news, Newt Gingrich, obama, Obama Nominees, Pronunciation, racism, Republicans Humor, Sean Hannity, smears, Song Parody, Sonia Sotomayor, Speaker, Supreme Court, Talk Show Hosts, Terrorism, Twitter, Values
Conservative Justice and the Ricci Firefighter’s Case
Posted on 10 June 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments Off | Tags: 1964 Civil Rights Act, New Haven Firefighter's case, Newt Gingrich, Ricci v. DeStephano, Ron Walters, Rush Limbaugh, The Black Commentator, Title VII, Tom Delay
by Ron Walters, PhD
Editorial Board Member, The Black Commentator
In the developing fight over the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, some conservative Republicans such as Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and Tom Delay are raising the charge that she is “racist” and would be an “activist” judge because of her ruling in the Ricci v. DeStephano case. [...]
The Party of Beavis and Butthead
Posted on 09 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: B&B reunion tour, Beavis farted, bereft of leadership and direction, Bob Hebert, Butthead sniggered, Club for Growth, Coleman, coronation of Rush Limbaugh as party king Spectre, Country on Fire: Republicans Have Hangnail, cracking jokes about “Mormon crickets” and “beaver mana, George Herbert Hoover Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, Heritage Foundation, Karl Rove, Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series, managing the President to a 28% approval rating, MTV counter culture music television revolution, Newt Gingrich, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman, Obama will overturn the Federal funds ban for research, Obama’s downturn, Op-Ed piece, Party Unity My Ass, Phil Gramm, PUMAs, Republican Party, Republican’s playbook, Ronald Reagan, Rush’s CPAC sideshow, Saint John McCain, Snowe, stem cell research, The Party of Beavis and Butthead, tiny portion of the national budget — less than 1 perce, wigging out over earmarks
Beavis farted, Butthead sniggered, “eh-eh-eh-eh” (or was it the other way around?), and for years they were the signature act of MTV’s counter culture music television revolution. The ultimate rebel against your elders genre of the period and now many of the younger “leaders” of the GOP took its message literally. Today’s Republican Party is [...]
An Open Letter to Right Wing-Nut Racist Republicans
Posted on 18 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1950’s Donna Reed Show view of the world, 2 wars, a cocktail joke, all that matters, always refute and dismiss anyone you disagree with, Argument over, attempts to portray our next President as a “lying Musl, Bill O‘Reilly, blind faith, blind pronouncements, born again, bust unions, campaign of fear and hate didn’t work, Caribou Sarah, cascade of boos, Clinton years, colin powell, could share a beer with, David Cameron in the UK during Prime Ministers Question, demand that God Bless America instead of offering a pra, Denis Campbell, deny gay marriages, do not exist, economic meltdown, every new scandal, everyone (but you) has to follow it, forgetting or dismissing as the devil’s work everything, four year olds in a schoolyard, grin and care not a whit what anyone else thinks, hide behind passages of the Bible you feel are relevant, His imperfections were known to all, his prime teachings by the way, I want my God and my country back, if engaged you go back to the standard line, jamming your thumbs in your ears welding your eyes shut, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, KILL HIM, narrow-minded xenophobia, News flash, Newt Gingrich, norm from this dogmatic place, offering hugs, Open Letter to Right Wing-nut Racist Republicans, pray together for the rapture you think is coming to sa, proclaiming access to some divine secret, put you further on the fringe than you already are, rail publicly against compassion, re-write the Bush legacy and history, rest of us allow doubt and uncertainty to actually be p, Rush Limbaugh, sad and deluded group, Sarah Palin, say the most hateful and despicable things about anothe, shoes being thrown at our Commander in Chief, sick, Sick and tired of your media mouthpieces claiming they, smarmy one-liners, somehow your salvation and absolution for the inconsist, southern Senators trying to bankrupt the Big Three, spiritual arrogance runs every aspect of your life, talk incessantly of God, TERRORIST, tolerance, true hatred of anyone not like you, understanding, unreal and untenable, wants nothing to do with you, we became a third world nation with nukes, We’ve had that for 8-years, will never share from where that ‘truth’ comes for fear, work of the uninformed, you become less than irrelevant, you don’t know the truth like I do, you know!, you left crazy a few weeks ago, you lost, you made it personal and a bloodsport, You want your President to be like you, yours bring out the ugliest sides of your constituency
By Denis Campbell
Your campaign of fear and hate? It didn’t work. Your attempts to portray our next President as a “lying Muslim socialist with no experience who hates our flag and Constitution and what this country was founded on.” It will put you further on the fringe than you already are. I’m really just sick [...]
The Spring, 2008 Irrelevancy Tour
Posted on 16 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 218 days, 5-4 decisions, Air Force 1, Angela Merkel, dinner, EU, G-8 Summit, George W. Bush, Gitmo, Gordon Brown, Guanatanamo Bay, habeus corpus, Her Majesty, Iraq, Michael Corleone, Newt Gingrich, Number 10 Downing Street, obama, Pope Benedict, Queen Elizabeth, tea, Terminal 5, The Godfather Part 3, this could cost us a city, UK, UK troop withdrawal, US Constitution, W, Windsor Castle
The George W. and Laura Bush EU farewell tour continued yesterday in the UK. After tea with Her Majesty at Windsor Castle, it was time for a lavish dinner with Gordon Brown at Number 10 Downing Street where the main topic was please, don’t pull your troops out of Iraq before my term ends. Prime [...]
Hillary’s W in WV – Yawn, Real Story is Red State Mississippi
Posted on 14 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 3 am attack ad, :eahy, blues states, Bob Barr, clinton, control of house and senate, Democratic Convention, filibuster busting, Gingrich Revolution, John McCain, Libertarian Party, Lieberman, Mark Penn, middle ground, Mississippi, Newt Gingrich, obama, red states, Republican Convention, Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, Tip O'Neill, veto-proof majority, West Virginia
338,000 people voted to assign 26 delegates or .6% of total delegates in play and captured the media spotlight for a week as the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton steel cage match went another breathless round, while reddest of Republican states Mississippi, ignored the personal campaigning of Vice President Dick Cheney as the Democrat Travis Childers won [...]
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